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Here is a great metal band I just came across. I got The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR album and plan on looking into their other releases as it is definitely an interesting style of metal. Here is what wikipedia had to say.
Orphaned Land is an Israeli heavy metal band formed in 1991, combining Middle-Eastern and Jewish/Arabic influences.
In 1992, the band changed its name from the original Resurrection[1] (not to be confused with Resurrection, a Floridian death metal band) to Orphaned Land. Orphaned Land fuse progressive, doom, and death metal as well as Middle-Eastern folk music and Arabic traditions in a form of Oriental metal. Each album has some concept related to two extremes: a meeting of east and west, past and present, light and darkness, and God and Satan.[2]
The band’s first album was Sahara (1994) which was originally released as a demo. The second album, El Norra Alila (1996), had many eastern/oriental influences, such as "El Norra Alila" ("Illustrious God"), based on a poem sung during Yom Kippur as a plea of forgiveness. It also included songs with traditional oriental Jewish piyyut and Arabic melodies. The album explored the themes of light and darkness, as well as conveying the message of commonality between the three main Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity).[3]
The third album, Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (the Hebrew name for the Deluge, depicted in the Bible and Noah’s story), released in 2004, was seven years in the making. It tells the story of three sons (one for each Abrahamic religion) who try to warn humanity of a flood coming as punishment for their sins. Musically, the album contains oriental instruments, two choruses, traditional Yemenite chants sung by Shlomit Levi, and quotes of Biblical verses from the story of the deluge, read by vocalist Kobi Farhi. After Mabool, Orphaned Land released an EP, Ararat (2005) named after Mount Ararat.
Orphaned Land recently finished working on the follow-up to Mabool, entitled The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR. OrWarrior means "Warrior of Light," and the concept will be the battle between light and darkness. The album will have a different sound than Mabool, and was Mixed by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree.[4] The first single from the CD was entitled Sapari and was put on MySpace with two other tracks, Vayehi OR and Disciples of the Sacred Oath II [5].
In 2008, Orphaned Land was featured in the documentary Global Metal by the creators of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.[6]
Orphaned Land has agreed to be Wacken Open Air tour held in Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. This festival includes more than 60 bands and is one of the biggest summer heavy metal tours in the world. [7]
For the beginning of 2010 Orphaned Land has confirmed to join the Summer Breeze Open Air metal music metal festival. The festival will beginning on August 19th and run to the 21st. The festival features over 50 bands and has brought in 40,000 attendees to Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria, Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned_Land
Orphaned Land is an Israeli heavy metal band formed in 1991, combining Middle-Eastern and Jewish/Arabic influences.
In 1992, the band changed its name from the original Resurrection[1] (not to be confused with Resurrection, a Floridian death metal band) to Orphaned Land. Orphaned Land fuse progressive, doom, and death metal as well as Middle-Eastern folk music and Arabic traditions in a form of Oriental metal. Each album has some concept related to two extremes: a meeting of east and west, past and present, light and darkness, and God and Satan.[2]
The band’s first album was Sahara (1994) which was originally released as a demo. The second album, El Norra Alila (1996), had many eastern/oriental influences, such as "El Norra Alila" ("Illustrious God"), based on a poem sung during Yom Kippur as a plea of forgiveness. It also included songs with traditional oriental Jewish piyyut and Arabic melodies. The album explored the themes of light and darkness, as well as conveying the message of commonality between the three main Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity).[3]
The third album, Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (the Hebrew name for the Deluge, depicted in the Bible and Noah’s story), released in 2004, was seven years in the making. It tells the story of three sons (one for each Abrahamic religion) who try to warn humanity of a flood coming as punishment for their sins. Musically, the album contains oriental instruments, two choruses, traditional Yemenite chants sung by Shlomit Levi, and quotes of Biblical verses from the story of the deluge, read by vocalist Kobi Farhi. After Mabool, Orphaned Land released an EP, Ararat (2005) named after Mount Ararat.
Orphaned Land recently finished working on the follow-up to Mabool, entitled The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR. OrWarrior means "Warrior of Light," and the concept will be the battle between light and darkness. The album will have a different sound than Mabool, and was Mixed by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree.[4] The first single from the CD was entitled Sapari and was put on MySpace with two other tracks, Vayehi OR and Disciples of the Sacred Oath II [5].
In 2008, Orphaned Land was featured in the documentary Global Metal by the creators of Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.[6]
Orphaned Land has agreed to be Wacken Open Air tour held in Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. This festival includes more than 60 bands and is one of the biggest summer heavy metal tours in the world. [7]
For the beginning of 2010 Orphaned Land has confirmed to join the Summer Breeze Open Air metal music metal festival. The festival will beginning on August 19th and run to the 21st. The festival features over 50 bands and has brought in 40,000 attendees to Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria, Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned_Land
